Intellectual Property

I copyrighted the title and manuscript of Strange Tango almost two decades ago, and the title has appeared in my published official biographies and blurbs since the 1980’s.

I have waited a very long time to publicly introduce my work.

A part of it was that the book's complexity is deceptive—there are multiple layers of interpretation and only 103 pages—I did not feel it would be understood in a world that was stratified, viewed largely in black and white. So basically, I had to wait for the world to become more complicated, disaffected, progressive, and multicultural—as well as to develop my own audience, cyberspace platform, and cosmology.

Also, I am difficult to categorize…I was one of the first to adopt the concept of hybridization in my work. I am not an academic, so I was not forced to publish or perish. Nor am I a pundit for whom talk is cheap.

No, the time was not right for me, so all these years I deliberately did not publish or debut any other writings, articles, essays, and various other works: mine is a clean slate for branding. Moreover, I am decidedly absolutist when it comes to controlling my original work, image, and intellectual property because I am such an intensely private individual.

The strength of my body of work is that it is so authentically unique that it really can't be duplicated: this is by deliberate design. I'm happy to incubate, exchange, and promulgate ideas—but my belief is that within each of us is the capacity to create and to mold—a child, a definitive statement, a mantra, a product—to reveal and to document, that which singularly represents one's time on this earth.

And Strange Tango is mine…